Mary McLeod BethuneShe was born in Mayesville, South Carolina on July 10th, 1875. Mary’s parents both used to be slaves who had been set free after the Civil War. She never went to school until the year 1885. Mary wanted a career in education she spent six years being a teacher in North Carolina. She trained to be an African Missionary at home and foreign missions in Chicago. She was denied at the board because they didn’t allow African Americans for this kind of job. She was a person who provided job training and benefits to students. Mary started teaching in earnest when she rented a two-story building in Daytona Beach, Flordia and started a school for African American girls. Her school opened in October 1904, with six students, five girls and her very own son; there was not any equipment; there were no desks they used crates and no pencils so they used charcoal. Then she started the Daytona Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls, in which most African American students started out with little or no education.She was hired by the president to lead the Division of Negro Affairs. Mary worked for Roosevelt on racial issues. When she worked for Roosevelt so many African Americans had been heard in the white house. Mary got noticed for her very hard work during her lifetime and received many honors. Mary got an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Rollins College in 1949; she was the first ever African American to get an honorary degree from a white southern college. After a long lifetime achievements, Mary died on the day of May 18, 1955.
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